WASHINGTON — Tom Zawistowski didn’t see “thugs” or “terrorists” among the crowd he joined Wednesday outside the U.S. Capitol during what some are describing as an attempted coup to block the election of Democrat Joe Biden.
The head of the We the People Convention and the Portage County Tea Party and onetime candidate for Ohio Republican Party chairman told The Columbus Dispatch that the majority of people he marched alongside were peacefully voicing their opposition to election results, not trying to violently overthrow the government.
Yet at the same time he justified the actions of the minority who were not peaceful.